mahayuga
महायुग mahāyugaA 'great age', one full cycle of the four yugas, totalling 4,320,000 years; a thousand mahayugas make a kalpa.
Where this term appears
- Hindu cosmology: the fourteen worlds and the ages of the universe Essentials
…d yuga-cycles too." — Bhagavad Gītā 8.17 One turn of the four ages, a mahāyuga , runs 4,320,000 years.
- The Four Yugas: Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali Essentials
That sum is a mahayuga , a great age, also called a chaturyuga , the set of four.
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
In the same book he gives the earth's rotations in a mahayuga , a great age: 1,582,237,500.
- The Wheel of Ages Treatise
Together the four make one mahayuga , a great age, of 4,320,000 years.
- The Wheel of the Year Treatise
A mahayuga of four ages, a thousand of them making a single day of Brahma: these numbers set the outermost rim of the wheel, and the festival year turns somewhere far inside it, on the human scale of a single r…